Sermons About Idols
Pt. 3, How to Waste Time with God in the Evening
This message recaps the "Wasting Time" series with pastor Jeremy McGarity. It is followed by a message from Wes Van Fleet about wasting time with God every day and giving up "idols".
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Wise Up Your Work
Losing sight of who God is comes easy. We make him look like us instead of who he really is. We want to control God. What we really need is to simply experience God, the real God.
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Hosea: Turning From Idols (Hosea 2:14-20)
Like the people of Hosea’s day, we often find ourselves enslaved to the very idols that we thought would satisfy us and bring us meaning. What can free us? In this sermon, we will see that we need to apply a specific antidote to our lives while finding our place in the overall story of a God in pursuit.
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Psalm 115 : Faith in the Unseen Despite Evidence to the Contrary
Our negative experiences can be so powerful that they cause us to doubt God's faithfulness and love. When we find ourselves peering through the window of our painful experience and cannot see any God anywhere we must look to his promises and trust in him.
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Finding God In Times Of Emotional Trauma & Confusion
Pastor gives us a guide to staying on the right track amidst some of the difficulties of life.
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Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?
Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries brings a Word concerning our relationship with Our Beloved Pastor George and he also shares a sermon on Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test? Podcast Legend: 00:00 – 38:15 – Worship 38:16 – 43:20 – Pastor George prays 43:21 – 44:48 – Cookie brings a Word 44:49 – 50:55 – Pastor George’s radio preview 50:56 – 52:47 – Various announcements 52:48 – 1:08:15 – Betty speaks then Cindi & Pastor pray with her 1:08:16 – 1:31:02 - Dick Dungan brings a Word concerning Our Beloved pastor George 1:30:03 – 1:53:30 – Dick Dungan of Rejoice Ministries shares on “Will Your Faith Stand The Integrity Test?” 1:53:31 – 2:03:42 – Closing Worship & Benediction
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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The Idol of Man
Most people are enslaved to the opinion of others. How can we be free from the idol of man?
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Detecting and Destroying our Idols
How do we detect whether something has become an Idol in our lives and how do we destroy it and return God to his proper place in our lives.
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Defining Idolatry
What is Idolatry? What does it look like in our lives and how can we be free the idols that we set up to be our functional gods.
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Given Over, But Not Given Up
God created us with a need to worship. If we don't worship Him, we'll worship something else. God has "given us over" to sin because of His justice and mercy
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Things As They Really Are
Far from being irrelevant, God's rebuke of idolatry through the prophet Jeremiah is a reminder to us that our idolatry can only be cured when we walk with a vision of God's unique greatness.
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American Idols
No one thinks they are an idolater. Irreligious people think they cannot be idolaters because they don't worship any gods. Religious people think they cannot be idolaters because they only worship one god. Both groups are wrong. And both groups are filled with idolaters. Listen in as we learn about human idolatry and Yahweh's response as recorded in the book of Judges.
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Finding your place in "His-story"---Luke 2: 1-20
Finding your place in "His-story"---Luke 2: 1-20
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Religion Is Crap Part 2 (Philippians 3:7-11)
Going into the holiday season, and subsequently the busiest shopping season of the year, it is important to see why joy seems to consistently evade us. In this sermon, we will look at the core essence of Christianity and why it opposes the one thing in our lives that is keeping us from real joy.
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A Christ-Centered Gospel for A Me-Centered World
Do you relate to God on His terms (i.e. the gospel) or your terms (i.e. religion)? When we really get that a right relationship with God is only possible His way, that changes everything about how we relate to Him and to others.
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Singleness and the American Idols (Part I: Singleness and the Glory of God Conference)
Welcome to the Treasure the Word podcast! This is Part I of the Singleness and the Glory of God Conference on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at Boone's Creek Baptist Church, Lexington, KY. The Scripture is Isaiah 44:9-20.
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Murder in the Church
Sadly churches are often filled with conflict. These conflicts flow out of worldly wisdom and unrestrained desires. But God's grace is more than sufficient to restore relationships among those who humble themselves.
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Jeremiah In The Midst of Suffering there is hope
The Lord God is the one true God and the Israelites had forgotten their one true love,Their sin led them to captivity and sin still does the same to us today. We are clay in the hands of the potter, are we allowing him to transform us and make us into the image he wants us to be. In the midst of suffering there is hope. The messiah was on the horizen in the midst of the Israelites suffering. That is what Paul knew. To live is Christ and to die is gain. No matter what we face in this world we have hope in Christ.
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Vision Series 2: The Gospel Creates a New Community---I Peter 2: 1-12
Vision Series 2: The Gospel Creates a New Community---I Peter 2: 1-12
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When Right is Wrong - Part 1
What does it take to be community? What does a community of Christ followers look like? What will that kind of community be known for in their city, on their planet? These questions are answered when God deals with a rather strange conflict over eating meat. Nope, it’s not a call by God to become vegetarian. It’s a deeper call to self-giving love.
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Transforming The World By Uprooting Idols (Isaiah 58:1-12)
What if you could be authentically free from self and lead the life God has destined you for – a life of impact? In this sermon, we will look at how being free from the idols that enslave us is the secret to seeing not only our hearts, but our world transformed.
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Elijah Who is your God?
The Israelites had a decision to make. Were they going to serve Baal or their God? We have the same choice today. In a society that exalts self,it is not easy to live for God. Who is your God?
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Origins: Failing in Faith
When I first became a Christian, I had a tendency to lift Godly men to an unrealistic level, almost like an idol. There is danger in idolizing our heroes, because it creates a distance between them and us. We compare ourselves to our heroes instead of finding hope in the gospel alone.
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Loving People By Uprooting Idols (1 John 3:11-18, 5:21)
The Bible is very clear that what keeps us from experiencing biblical community is our own sin and idolatry. In this sermon, we will look at how to repent of far idols so that we can experience Christ through one another.
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Loving God By Uprooting Idols (1 John 5:21)
The greatest desire that God has for you is to love Him. Loving God is hindered by things we put in the place of God. The Bible calls these things we inflate and put in the place of God idols.
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Samuel: A Mothers Prayer is Answered
A Mother's prayer is answered, Samuel hears the voice of God,Israel rejects God as their king
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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2 Samuel 2:12-3:39 - Promise Rules
David is still waiting on God to fulfill His promise of a kingdom. He has shown humility in inquiring of God (2:1-8) about where the kingdom show start out. Now Abner has set up Ish-bosheth as the king of Judah in a rebellious move. This passage (2:12-3:39) shows the failure of Abner and Joab in their attempts set up a kingdom contrary to God's. We will look at 3 wrong ways to seeking God's kingdom, and then will be encouraged to trust that God's promises will prevail over the desires of men. This will encourage us to always seek God's Kingdom in Chirst first before all others. (Matthew 6:33)
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Psalm 121
When we come to God all our problems are solved… Right? When we embark on relationship with the Almighty, one thing we can absolutely count on is that all our problems, all our “issues” all the hard parts of life get solved, smoothed out… dealt with. And should we find pain or difficulty or suffering in our lives? That’s a sure sign that God has left us, has rejected us, is in fact punishing us…
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When Love Says, "Come, Let's Reason Together"---Galatians 4:8-31
When Love Says, "Come, Let's Reason Together"---Galatians 4:8-31
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Lessons Learned
With all the pressures of this life, marriages are under fire today. Listen to the top 10 mistakes married people make, and how to avoid them. Join David and Teresa Hillis in hearing their story of reconciliation and God's love. 9) Staying in the shadows about your marriage problems.
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Satisfied
Human nature is to take created things and worship them as the creator. In this sermon, we will look at how to find our satisfaction in God alone.
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Idols part 2
What are idols and what do they have to do with me today? Find out in this, the second half of a message from Rev. Inyang Okutinyang.
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Kingdoms in Conflict
As Paul concludes his ministry in Ephesus, the growth of the Kingdom creates conflict with the idol-makers of the city. In this sermon, we learn from the example of Paul how we are to respond to conflict created by the Kingdom.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
I. Acknowledge that happiness is ultimately found in God alone. II. Abandoning the pursuit of counterfeit happiness (Idolatry). III. Adamantly taking refuge in Jesus Christ who has securely taken a hold of you.
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Acts 17:16-34 - Turning from Idols
The Apostle Paul traveled to Athens, where he was immediately troubled by all of the idols that he saw in town. He began to share the Gospel with the people and debated with the Epicureans and the Stoics. He was then brought before the local heads of philosophy at Mars Hill and preached the Gospel to them, explaining how God had created all people and He now wanted all people to turn from their useless idols and trust in Him and His Son, Jesus Christ. We can think it strange that people would bow down to stone statues but we all have things in our lives like possessions, relationships, comforts, and pleasures, that we devote ourselves to and expect to make us happy and content instead of our relationship with God, and we need to turn from these idols and trust in Christ for our salvation and satisfaction.
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American Idol
Here Christians are confronted to do away with any idol they worship instead of God.
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Resisting Idolatry Like Jesus
Paul connects idolatry and sin in a way that shows the sin in our life proceeds from our idols. That which we hold in highest esteem and devote our time and energy to is our idol(s). The human heart is an 'idol factory' capable of turning anything good (children, important work, sex, etc...) into idolatry.
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